*** Cincinnati Fanviews 6/24 Here ***

Did anyone else notice that Ed did not sing I wish I was a sailor with someone who waited for me?
Do you think he just forgot the words again (what concert was it where he totally screwed up the lyrics to wishlist and then asked for forgiveness? that was hilarious) or because of his hatred for the war left it out on purpose? As a mother of a sailor that was signioficant to me.
Any thoughts?

This was my first... I fucked up the 10 club presale and got an upper-deck ticket 1 minute after they went on sale to the public, so that was lame, but even so, this blew every other concert I have ever been to out of the water. I can't compare it to any past PJ shows, because I don't have any past PJ shows, but it was simply unbelievable. My highlights were:

Even Flow, when Mike and Matt started playing JESUS CHRIST POSE and Matt continued with the drum part (did anyone else notice this?)

Rearviewmirror, an awesome jam section, great energy throughout. This is my 2nd favorite PJ song behind WMA, which they were not gonna play, so I was super excited to hear rvm.

Crazy Mary - Damn! Excellent vocals, I liked Ed singing an octave higher on the 2nd verse, and an orgasmic organ/guitar solo.

Leash - I wasn't one of the ones calling for them to play Leash at the beginning of the tour--it was never one of my favorites. But now that I have witnessed it, I understand why they have been playing it so much. There's something about chanting "Get out of my fucking face" with 20,000 other people that is simply life-affirming.

Of course, the rest of the show was unbelievable as well. My only drawbacks were that Matt wasn't loud enough for the first part of the show and his vocal mic was never loud enough, there was no Black, Porch, Animal, or Yellow Ledbetter, and that I lost my wallet. So today has pretty much sucked, searching the hotel room and my house once I got back home, all to no avail... fuck. But it was worth it.

last night was my 5th show this tour and i loved it......great energy from the crowd, the band proved to me once again that they are the greatest fucking band ever.....ed wiping his butt with the rolling stone....priceless......long road opener into save you.....fucking amazing.....i finally got to hear one of my fav tags save it for later..... wishlist was the best version i have heard......cannot believe how awsome it was......thanks to the guy who passed his joint to me and my friend......after that i was feeling really good....i was in the upper deck on booms side and got to see boom rock the shit out of crazy mary.....what a great night...thanks to all of you who helped make it a night to remember.......

see ya in san diego!

Best Line - "I played it at 7:30 asshole"

good to see a healthy selection of Riot Act and No code songs tonight!

I've caught 6 gigs on this tour so far and I gotta say that the Cincy crowd was by far the most energetic and friendly to date. We couldn't have asked for a better setlist-ok, maybe some lost dogs or a rarity or 2 but all in all it FUCKING ROCKED. It was also the first show that Eddie seemed sober- Robert Pollard too- I couldn't fucking belive that that guy wasn't drunk off his ass! we were side stage right about 15 rows up on the aise...sec 114.

ok before pre set- The security and ticket cats were SO LAX and easy- this was my best venue experience EVER. I said what's up to this old ticket guy and he he smiled and said "You know- You youngsters are alright..." BAM- preset we get The Kids Are All Right!!!!! right then and there i knew this was going to be a cosmic gig.

Bob Pollard broke out a few good ones including The Girls Of Wild Strawberries on Eddies request, and Love is Stronger than Witchcraft (which later on Eddie used as a tag on wishlist- sounded fuckin great!) also one other GBV tune- but lots of obscure new stuff. He said in Pitts 3 of his cds were sold and Eddie bought 2...was pretty fuckin funny. He came back out for Baba O Reily with PJ which GBV covered often.

Pearl Jam just ripped it up knocking off a BUNCH of tunes that me and my girl had written on our wishlists on the plane- I called teh Long Road which we were over due for....Long Road, Save You, Hail Hail.....all on our lists and boy were we fuckin pumped!!!!! then a bunch of great new stuff the norm wws corduroy, etc...then it was Riot Act Make up time pulling out a bunch in place of all the tired Ten Bullshit...they know they'll be playing the shit out of ten when they play greatest hits shows opening for Petty. My girl was LOVING it since RA is her favorite record next to Lost Dogs... It sounded on point....we got a bunch of harder shit later on also on my wishlist> Lukin, Whipping, Do The Evolution, Life Wasted.. Eddie went into a huge hilarious rant about how he wipes the new Rolling Stone with his ass cause they wouldn't put the band on the cover!!!!

Everyone around me was psyched and I gotta say this was hands down the best gig on this tour that I've seen out of 6- the boys really gave it their all and this crowd was apeshit!!!!

Encores were sweet- Thank You Pearl Jam! Thank you Cincinati for your kind hospitality and generosity- you energy is timeless- Don't let anyone on this tour tell you that your show was any less than what you experienced. This was the real psychedlic in tune deal. See you in San Fran!!!?!?!?!?!?! I said-yeahhhhhhhhhh!

We had a great time in Cincy. A couple of highlights for me:

* the LITER of German beer in Newport. Wow. That's a lot of beer.

*The Kids Are Alright
*Excellent HAIL HAIL
*Green Disease
*Save It For Later
*Crazy Mary--I have seen it multiple times but this had a little something extra.
*Modern Girl Tag
*Wishlist, great version
*Inside Job
*Leash

The crowd was great in our section (103) everyone was into it. I still can't speak very well so I know I did my fair shre of screaming. It was my 10th show and it did not fail to impress. Great job Cincy!

The show was great! It was my first for this tour. After hearing over 100 boots, I must say that their performance of Crazy Mary was hands down the best I've ever heard, which was great for my wife as that's her favorite song.

For a more solemn moment, as we were seated I noticed a family directly across the aisle from me (I was on an aisle seat) and saw that they had some interesting shirts on that said "Missing Pearl Jam Fan" and "Reward" and the picture of a guy in his 20's. When Eddie mentioned the extreme misfortune of the Shaffer family and asked us all to help find Brian, everything clicked. It was his family. When Eddie said that the next song was dedicated to Brian they embraced one another and the their tears and sorrow flowed out uncontrollably. I tapped my mother (our whole family loves PJ and tries to make it out) on the shoulder during Wishlist and let her know that Brian's father was right next to us. She went and bought them all something to drink. At first they wouldn't accept, but she insisted and I think at that point they understood that she knew who they were. Brian's father, tears in his eyes, accepted the offer and shook her hand. She wished him the best of luck in this troubling time in his life. I then leaned over and shook it as well and wished him luck finding Brian. It was a very solemn moment, and kind of changed the mood of the next few songs. It was pretty hard to get into the music while thinking about this poor family that was seated right next to me. They left toward the end of Better Man (I believe). I felt very fortunate to meet his father, and wish him the best of luck.

That was the emotional highlight of the show for me.

We were seated in section 230 (ouch) row k seats 1-4, their family was in section 229 row k at the end of the aisle. I wish Eddie would have known they were there, I'm sure he would have made mention of it or had them back to meet the band so they could personally wish them luck.